Metastasis-related genes in prostate cancer

Semin Oncol. 1999 Aug;26(4):422-7.

Abstract

The identification of genes specifically related to the development of metastatic disease in prostate cancer is complicated by tumor cell heterogeneity and the presence of expressed sequences that are not related to metastasis. A system was designed to minimize these complications using differential display-polymerase chain reaction (DD-PCR) together with genetically paired cell lines derived from primary mouse prostate cancer and their associated metastases generated in vivo by the metastatic mouse prostate cancer reconstitution model. Using this system, a number of metastasis-related sequences were identified, including a cDNA that encodes caveolin-1.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Caveolin 1
  • Caveolins*
  • Genes, p53
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Membrane Proteins / physiology
  • Mice
  • Mutation
  • Neoplasm Metastasis / genetics
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • CAV1 protein, human
  • Cav1 protein, mouse
  • Caveolin 1
  • Caveolins
  • Membrane Proteins